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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Building that Base

It's time for me to up my game. I realized during my last 2.5 mile run my base sucks. There's no other word for it. When I make progress, I back down the next week, but it's time I started pushing myself. If I want to have a strong 5k, I need to consistently hit 2 miles in my workouts now. Anything beyond 2 miles and I start losing my form and the remaining distance ain't pretty. I've decided to take the leap and not do runs under 2 miles so I can continue to build. After 2 miles, I only have 1.1 to go.

As a side note to running, y'all know how much I love Sweaty Bands, but recently I'd been working out without them. Yeah, not gonna happen again. A couple hair wisps landed in my eye on Saturday and it hurt like crazy. I need to wear one of however many Sweaty Bands I have during every workout. My wisps are getting longer and need to be kept in check.

Keep at it - it will get easier. Have you tried going the full three by running the first two and then walking the third or run/walk the third? That might be a way to build the base without injury or excessive fatigue? And I am a sweatyband/sparkly soul fanatic. My hair is growing out from a short style, but I have thin little wispy hairs all over and that does drive me nuts if they stick to my face.

It's hard to build up after a long injury this i know. But a lot of it is in our minds, I learned that too:) I think your idea is a great approach to helping get over the mind part of it and knowing you can run more!I can't run with headbands, I find they are useless (for me) I am a hat girl, I love having it all held back into place, and I love that if I am running into the sun or wind I can tip the hat forward to keep the sun/weather off my face.